By Ben Whedon
A recently published study by the Cleveland Clinic has questioned the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine and claimed that additional doses may actually increase the likelihood of contracting the disease.
Conducted between September and December this year, the clinic examined 51,000 employees to test the “bivalent” vaccine, designed to protect against the original type of COVID-19 and its Omicron variants.
It also sought to determine the effectiveness of subsequent doses of the vaccine. The study has not yet been peer-reviewed.
The survey ultimately found a link between a higher risk of COVID-19 and those individuals who had previously received more vaccine doses.
The study further determined that the bivalent vaccines were only 30% effective in preventing infection against different variants of the Omicron strain of the virus.
Cleveland Clinic Study File
“The association of increased risk of COVID-19 with a greater number of previous vaccine doses in our study was unexpected,” the study said.
“A simple explanation could be that those who received more doses were more likely to be individuals at higher risk of COVID-19. A small number of individuals may have fit this description.”
“However, the majority of subjects in this study were generally young individuals and all were eligible to have received at least 3 doses of vaccine by the study start date, which they had every opportunity to do.”
“Therefore, those who received less than 3 doses (>45% of individuals in the study) were not those who were ineligible to receive the vaccine, but those who chose not to follow the CDC recommendations to stay up-to-date with the COVID vaccination -19, and one might reasonably expect that these individuals would be more likely to have exhibited higher risk-taking behaviors,” he continued.
“Despite this, their risk of getting COVID-19 was lower than those who received a higher number of previous vaccine doses.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has long maintained that getting the various vaccines cannot prevent someone from contracting the disease, but rather reduce the severity of symptoms.
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